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mircea_popescu: the next block to wahtever it has on disk is not going to be too much from the future.
mircea_popescu: but the next block it gets wouldn't be more than two hours off.
mircea_popescu: and setting the time to "timestamp of the last block it actually has on disk" is going to what ?
mircea_popescu: and you don't like having to start it by manual command because myeah.
mircea_popescu: held together by the superficial tension of hemorhagic diarhea
mircea_popescu: nevertyheless, that is a marked improvement over the current situation
mircea_popescu: it is held together by the superficial tension of frog entails.
mircea_popescu: you take it down and start it over with new magic touch
mircea_popescu: from there on, iut carries on by simply syncing its clock to last accepted block.
mircea_popescu: this, you have to do. like it or not we dunno how to abstract it away.
mircea_popescu: so, when you start the pogo, you provide it with the human touch, divine spark, politica time.
mircea_popescu: oh, openssl put out a bug ? best make sure the fucking calculator pulls it in.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i know i'm fed up with random shit depending on random shit, but it's not mere stupidity. it's just them trying to make sure shit permeates everywhere.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if he does the assbot thing i'm definitely going to allow selected l2 people to manage f.mpif pcs.
mircea_popescu: but iirc the star trader quit and the fund closed down or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: in any case i recall f.mpif had an investment with a derivative something for a few months.
mircea_popescu: in the end it came to exactly the same thing, not scammed anyone to anyone's knowledge, and why exactly would i put so much power in the hands of inept fiat "regulatory bodies"
mircea_popescu: they both engage in making predictions, which are about as interesting and useful.
mircea_popescu: the names of the places they'll never see. what exactly is the difference between an academitard and a housewife watching discovery channel i shall never know.
mircea_popescu: but hey. professional scholars. all that fits in their head are names.
mircea_popescu: then stolfi wonders whether i want to be this or that title. as if a title is in any way useful or related to me.
mircea_popescu: because "people" of the pale complexion have allowed themselves to be trained in such god-awful conformity, and the space of possibilities has lain fallow for so long, to be shat into by alf's smirking plumbooker, that it's getting fucking filled.
mircea_popescu: what is the difference between ntp telling you what time it is and *tp telling you what to observe ?
mircea_popescu: (yes, there's a smartness of the dumb, like there's a richness of the poor and a cleanliness of the filthy and honesty of politicians and so on and so forth.)
mircea_popescu: it is the smartness of the nor merely dumb, but unrescuably so.
mircea_popescu: they simply say things that bear an impredictable (to them first of all) relationship to reality.
mircea_popescu: then, of THOSE POOLS it turned out that ~50% are too confused to even lie.
mircea_popescu: for students of the bitcoin protocol actually interested in learning how it works, create a list of all block hashes, calculate implied difficulty on that basis, compare to actual difficulty at the time and calculate variance etc. nice graphs to be had.
mircea_popescu: in that difficulty is a statistical measure and statistics of sets of one is undefined.
mircea_popescu: i suppose we progressed from moore law's to this noore law.
mircea_popescu: shinohai unrelated things tho. a tx is a tx, it charges by byte.
mircea_popescu: might have been 0.00001 what they paid, i dun recall. look at the backlog should be obvious